Here's the original paper:<p>low-res pdf - <a href="http://www.connellybarnes.com/work/publications/2014_portrait.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.connellybarnes.com/work/publications/2014_portrai...</a><p>hi-res pdf - <a href="http://www.connellybarnes.com/work/publications/2014_portrait_hires.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.connellybarnes.com/work/publications/2014_portrai...</a>
Url changed from <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/30/mit-researchers-create-an-app-that-turns-selfies-into-works-of-art/" rel="nofollow">http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/30/mit-researchers-create-an-a...</a>, which points to this.
The lawsuits that will happen when someone implements this are going to be interesting. Artists tend to be very protective over their styles: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibovitz_v._Paramount_Pictures_Corp" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibovitz_v._Paramount_Pictures...</a>.
Right. If you want something not entirely dissimilar, and available right now for your photos, visit <a href="http://vsco.co" rel="nofollow">http://vsco.co</a> or look for the VSCO Cam app on the app store.<p>It doesn't do based-on-image-X matchy-matching but it does good film emulation.
In the beginning of the article I thought it was just some instagram-like filters with some buzzwords like "selfie" added. But when I saw the video showing that it can apply the style of one image to the other, that was where I started to find it awesome! Neat!